Friday, May 24, 2013

Setting up SSL for Weblogic

We recently needed to setup SSL for OBIEE so that we could accept the EBS cookie for single sign on between EBS and OBIEE (post to come soon on how to get that all wired up). Unfortunatly I don't have all of the steps, as someone else on the team handles the making of the actual cert, but I can provide all steps around the process.

Continue on to read what I did to create a private key, create a certificate request (CSR), and configure WebLogic to enable the SSL port for OBIEE.

Log into the server you want to setup SSL on with Putty and run the following commands:

Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:<serverhost>.blah.com

Email Address []: something@aol.com

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes to be sent with your certificate request

A challenge password []: welcome1

An optional company name []: My Corp

Send your CSR to whomever creates certificates for your company. They will return to you a CRT file. This, along with the key you created earlier, will be used to create a java keystore which is what you will configure in WebLogic.